samba - Feb 2000 - Installation for a Newbie

Okay...

Here's what I'm trying to do.

I have an existing NT Domain with a PDC and I have a brand new Linux Box 
that I want to join that domain.

I found the Docs and I read the Joining an NT Domain with Samba 2 file...

I used SAMBA STATUS to ensure that the services were stopped.

Then as per the docs I used: smbpasswd -j DOMAIN -r PDC

And got the following...

modify_trust_password: Can't resolve address for PDC
2000/02/16 19:36:04 : change_trust_account_password: Failed to change 
password for domain DOMAIN.
Unable to join domain DOMAIN.

I also tried TESTPARM and it said I was clean...

I'm running RedHat 6.1 and I loaded Samba as a package. I am using DHCP but 
I can change that. Someone else's post suggested that might be a bad 
thing... I'd prefer to figure out how to make DHCP work since I'm going
to
be installing Linux on my laptop and that will be moving from one domain at 
home to the domain at work (identical structure to the domains in both domains)

Thanks for any suggestions.

Matt

At 11:48 AM 02/17/2000 +1100, you wrote:
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>I'm running RedHat 6.1 and I loaded Samba as a package. I am using DHCP
but
>I can change that. Someone else's post suggested that might be a bad 
>thing... I'd prefer to figure out how to make DHCP work since I'm
going to
>be installing Linux on my laptop and that will be moving from one domain at 
>home to the domain at work (identical structure to the domains in both
domains)
>From a troubleshooting standpoint, it's much easier to test the other
poster's hypothesis and temporarily hardcode IP addresses. See if the
symptom changes. If not, go back to DHCP. If so, exploit the differences
until you find the root cause, then fix the root cause so you can use DHCP.
Either way you win.

Steve Litt

Hi Matt,

Your very first step is to follow the 10 step predefined diagnostic
outlined in file DIAGNOSIS.txt, which comes with your Samba distro. On an
RH61 box it's probably in directory /usr/doc/samba-2.0.3/docs/textdocs, or
something like that. Also, if you're using some hairy smb.conf that came as
example code, you might want to temporarily try an ultra-simple smb.conf:

netbios name=<linux host name>
workgroup=<same workgroup as on the Windows client>
encrypt passwd=<no on early w95 or wfw, yes for later win OS's>
[homes]
read only=no

The stuff in angle brackets are not literals, they're descriptions of what
to put.

Steve Litt


At 01:53 AM 02/17/2000 +1100, you wrote:
>I'm utterly new to Linux and Samba but we will be Beta Testing a Linux 
>version of our product soon and so I need to learn. I've got RedHat 6.1 
>installed and running and I can browse the Internet... BUT I can't get 
>Samba to do what I think it should be able to do....
>
>I've created an account on my NT Domain Server (NT 4.0 PDC SP6) for the 
>NetBios name of the Linux Machine.
>
>I've tried to log in from Samba... But it just gives me strange messages
I
>don't understand... I installed Samba as a package during my Linux set
up
>so I assume (and this could be the problem) that like the other packages 
>it's ready to roll... I can run the various smbxxxxx programs but they 
>don't seem to do anything. (Well I mean I can run them and get a list of
>possible parameters but when I try and use the parameters they error) I 
>still can't see my Linux machine in Network Neighborhood... I can browse
to
>the Samba Web Interface thing and make and save changes... I've even
tried
>it all while logged in as ROOT... No dice.
>
>Is there any simple How-To that can get me going? I've tried the Man
Pages
>for Samba and they don't seem to help me... I've tried searching for
a
>How-To and I didn't find anything I could use...
>
>At this point I don't even know where to start or where to look... Help?
>
>I appreciate any kind (and informative) words...
>
>Thanks
>
>Matt
>
>